Rising temperatures and land-use change are contributing to a 50% rise in the number of catastrophic wildfires. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France - The scented stands of pine trees stretching along France’s southwestern Atlantic coastline were reduced to charred stumps and stacks of blackened timber by the massive fires that ravaged the tourist hotspots of the Landes forest last summer.
Across southern Europe, an unusually dry winter has left tinder-dry forests at risk of blazes from Portugal to France, raising fears of a repeat of 2022, when 785,000 hectares were destroyed across Europe - more than double the annual average for the past 16 years, European Commission data shows. Today, pine is a key raw material for the construction and paper industries, while its resin is used in varnish and paint. In the Nouvelle Aquitaine region, the forestry sector provides 50,000 jobs and an annual turnover exceeding €10 billion .
In fire-affected zones, the hospitality industry saw an estimated 40 per cent drop in earnings, according to the French sector’s union Umih, and there are worries 2023 could bring another hit. Measures being put in place this summer include a smoking ban in forested areas, forecasts communicating weather conditions that stoke fire risk, and extra police patrols.Stopping forests from going up in smoke is key to protecting people and incomes - but also to cutting planet-heating emissions, as trees release the carbon they store when they burn.
Since then, “everyone has had an opinion on how to replant”, said forestry expert Christophe Orazio, who heads the European Planted Forest Institute near Bordeaux.In the Landes, the arguments turn on whether to let the forest regenerate naturally and ending the dominance of pine. Mr Antoine de Boutray, director of France’s National Forestry Office in the Pyrenees-Atlantic region, worked on the replanting using cork oak and maritime pine, completed in March.
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